From Monday 16th June 2014 there will be a change in the date format supported by ENA's advanced search to ISO format as shown below.  Note that ISO date ranges and time will not be supported for searching, but date ranges will be given where available in the tabulated reports.
 
Single date format (for search and report):  YYYY-MM-DD
Example:  collection_date < 2014-04-01
 
Date range format (for report only):  YYYY-MM-DD/YYYY-MM-DD
Example: 2010-01-01/2010-01-31
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